The potential of Picnik

Rhossilli, a photo by alicymru on Flickr.
While the original photo of the lovely Lambo (above left) was not as grainy as it has turned out here (not sure why I can't get a better resolution), the photo on the right provides an example of the wonders that can be achieved using Picnik.This module was great fun playing around with the various options - cropping, saturation, resizing. I was even able to give Lambo a touch up of whitening to enhance his natural grubbiness. I can definitely see how Picnik could be used to being some drama and glamor to posters and displays. I'm not sure if I missed it,but I couldn't find an option to directly transfer the modified picture from Picnik to the blog. I uploaded the picture from Picnik to Flickr then posted it on the blog. Was there a more direct way?


An aside- can you spot the hang glider?

To RSS or not to RSS, that is the question...

A couple of weeks ago I set up a Google Reader account,subscribed to a few feeds, and organized them neatly into appropriately labelled folders with the honorable intention of using this information source to keep in the loop with the selected sites. I'm not sure if it's just because I'm a creature of habit, but I haven't gone back to the reader to view the feeds preferring to visit my usual website haunts. I subscribed to the TCPL feed and I can see how that would be useful to quickly check if there were programs taking place, and at which branch etc. but to be honest, if I'm at work at a shared computer where I might not be automatically logged in, there's not really a time saving element to logging in to Google Reader to get the information over just going directly to the Homepage. I suppose it's purely a matter of preference.

I've decided to give the RSS/reader thing another chance by subscribing to a news source I know has a horrible website. I may regret this decision; the website is that of my home town's local newspaper. The newspaper itself is pretty dire so I can only hope that carefully selected feeds will ease the pain of local news reporting.

South Wales Evening Post - links to the awful local rag's website, just in case there was any doubt that home town news might be interesting.